Safari vs Firefox

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What is your browser of choice?

  • Safari

    Votes: 24 31.2%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 53 68.8%
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    77
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Which do you guys use? I just got my first Mac so for now I'm content with Safari until I see any problems.

I did install Firefox just now to compare really quick. Firefox seems to be noticeably faster with cached pages, while Safari is easier on the memory and CPU (but not by much).

I'm not really into the whole plugins thing with Firefox myself, though. I used Firefox in Windows forever and only used Adblocker which I can live without.
 
i find that some webpages that i use for work, such as an oracle online email page doesn't load properly in safari and thus have firefox for my backup browser, in all honesty i don't see much difference between the two. I have both and tend to use firefox more simply because I've used it so much in Windows.
 
safari + safari adblock. firefox seemed to load slower and slower after each update.
 
Safari 4b just needs find-as-you-type that behaves like Firefox/Camino and I'd be sold. Until then I'm sticking with Camino.
 
Oh, Safari 4, I forgot about that. I'm still using 3.2.1 here. I'll give 4 a try
 
Some of my pages just don't load on Safari 4. So until it gets the official release, I'm staying with Firefox.
 
FireFox seems faster on my MacBook Pro so it's my browser of choice. It's the only browser I use on my PC, too.
 
Mac firefox always crashed on me. I use Safari when I use my Mac.
 
I have to say Firefox. I have problems viewing Flash content with Safari 3. Safari has also had various other rendering problems for me as well, but I'll definitely say it feels a little faster than Firefox.
 
I prefer safari 4 beta, but until the delicious bookmarks plugin gets fixed I'm back to crash fox.
 
Safari 4 beta. Only change I made was tabs underneath the main section rather than in the top.
 
use firefox at work, because our internal web servers were coded for it. When not at work, and when I don't have a mouse, I use Safari because of the native gesture support.
 
I use Firefox. I'm a plugin whore. Although I wish I could use multitouch (which is supposed to be coming soon.)
 
firefox...one of the first things I download. Never tried the new safari 4 beta though. Might give that a shot.
 
safari 4b for me. It loads a lot faster and pages also. Firefox is just my backup in case for some reason safari doesn't work
 
Firefox

Used to be all Safari, but wanted the ability to sync my bookmarks between PC and Mac for free (Xmarks plugin). Adblock is also badass.
 
Safari 4beta is my browser of choice, but sometimes you'll find me on firefox. I don't do much on my mac so I don't need my browser to be so customized or have too many add-ons like I have on my Vista desktop.
 
On pages with a lot of images (www.kotaku.com) does anyone find Firefox quite slow at scrolling (Mac only. Because I don't get this lag on Windows PCs)? As if there's a few ms lag that is noticeable? I don't get this on Safari, it's very smooth

I will also definitely give OmniWeb a try. Sounds good from their website. Wonder how compatible it is with websites. Any idea what engine it runs on?

Edit: Ugh, so annoying. It has the same stupid.. thing like Safari does, where when you press maximize it doesn't really maximize. Firefox gets it
 
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Mr. Wolf said:
I never heard of OmniWeb before you mentioned. It's my new Mac browser. Very cool!
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It is, isn't it? Just a shame they stopped developing it.


Wonder how compatible it is with websites. Any idea what engine it runs on?
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Webkit, same as Safari 3. I don't think it passes ACID3, but I don't have many compatibility issues with it.
 
Just as a tip: for those that really prefer Firefox, you might consider - note I'm saying consider trying out Camino at some point. It uses the same rendering power that Firefox does, but it's in a more OSX-styled package, you could say.

On those incredibly rare instances where I use OSX (primarily OSx86 on my ThinkPad, actually) it's Camino all the way...

http://caminobrowser.org/

Definitely worth checking out if you haven't, or even if you've never encountered it before.
 
ghostee said:
Firefox

Used to be all Safari, but wanted the ability to sync my bookmarks between PC and Mac for free (Xmarks plugin). Adblock is also badass.
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Xmarks works in Safari.

I still use Firefox though.
 
Joe Average said:
Just as a tip: for those that really prefer Firefox, you might consider - note I'm saying consider trying out Camino at some point. It uses the same rendering power that Firefox does, but it's in a more OSX-styled package, you could say.

On those incredibly rare instances where I use OSX (primarily OSx86 on my ThinkPad, actually) it's Camino all the way...

http://caminobrowser.org/

Definitely worth checking out if you haven't, or even if you've never encountered it before.
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Just gave it a try.

Go to www.lifehacker.com for some reason Camino takes quite a bit of time to render it and while it's loading, I can't do anything. I can't type or scroll. I mean I can but there is just like 5 seconds lag between every letter and scrolling.

Works just fine under Firefox
 
Tylerdurdened said:
Just gave it a try.

Go to www.lifehacker.com for some reason Camino takes quite a bit of time to render it and while it's loading, I can't do anything. I can't type or scroll. I mean I can but there is just like 5 seconds lag between every letter and scrolling.

Works just fine under Firefox
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Try the latest Camino 2.0 nightly or beta. It uses the same version of gecko (1.9.x) as Firefox 3. The version of gecko (1.8.x) in Camino 1.6.x is rather old - the equivalent of Firefox 2.x.
 
Maybe check their forum or ask if anyone else has that issue? Personally whenever I use it with OSx86, it's faster - ok, placebo time since it feels much more responsive than Firefox on the same machine and same OS installation. Can't test that sort of thing, but with the latest build under OSx86 running 10.5.7 Camino gets slightly better scores in the Sunspider benchmark on my ThinkPad x60... not that Javascript is the end all be all but, even so. :)

And yes, I'm using a nightly trunk build of 2.0... didn't want to bring up using beta software since I know sometimes that gets tricky on OSX... /me ducks and runs...
 
I use Firefox for foxmarks, adblock, noscript, fasterfox, and greasemonkey; I like the Safari 4 beta except that the tabs are now on top, I think that was a horrible design choice and I don't like the look one bit.
 
Joe Average said:
Maybe check their forum or ask if anyone else has that issue? Personally whenever I use it with OSx86, it's faster - ok, placebo time since it feels much more responsive than Firefox on the same machine and same OS installation. Can't test that sort of thing, but with the latest build under OSx86 running 10.5.7 Camino gets slightly better scores in the Sunspider benchmark on my ThinkPad x60... not that Javascript is the end all be all but, even so. :)

And yes, I'm using a nightly trunk build of 2.0... didn't want to bring up using beta software since I know sometimes that gets tricky on OSX... /me ducks and runs...
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I can confirm the problem on 1.6.7. Its a javascript issue and it happens on kotaku and other sites from their network. It started a week or two ago so I'd assume its a change they've made on their end. I doubt many people test in Camino or older versions than the latest Firefox.

I use Camino because Firefox lacks services integration and looks terrible in the interface department. I don't know how anyone could live without keychain working in the browser.
 
I would use Safari but it does not do one thing that Firefox does that I can't be without. For example, if I go to a website, and the text size is too small for me, I can do the ctrl/+ and make it bigger. The next time I visit that site, it remembers the text size I set it at. I don't have to change it again.

Sure, you can set the minimum text size larger, but that can screw up sites where I don't need the bigger text. If Safari would remember individual site text size that I set, I would use Safari 100% of the time.

Edit: fixed my screwed up sentence.
 
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safari 4 beta is pretty awesome...but firefox is still the best browser on the net. best options, most add-ons, great bookmarking, realy fast.
 
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